Tesla Motors chief designer Franz Von Holzhausen recently indicated to German auto website autobild.de that the $35k Tesla model E may very well debut at the Detroit Auto Show in 2015. This would be 1-2 years earlier than previously expected.

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For those of us drooling over the Model S, and soon to be drooling over the Model X, this is welcome news for those of us without the scratch to order up a vehicle from Elon Musk’s electric vehicle manufacturer.

The Model E is expected to be a sedan, slightly smaller than the Model S, with a range of about 199 miles per charge.